”The focused diversity - CBS and the challenges of the next decade”
”The focused diversity - CBS and the challenges of the next decade”
President Finn Junge-Jensen, who has been the driving force behind CBS’ development to its present position as a significant and internationally recognised business school, has now decided to stop after 22 years as president to work shorter hours in a full-time position as Vice Dean of the Graduate Diploma Programme. On this occasion CBS would like to invite you to seminar and farewell reception.
Programme
14:00-15:45 Seminar
• Introduction - Niels Kjeldsen, Direktør / CEO
• Lessons from the future,Visions from the past – Kristian Kreiner, Professor, CBS
• Executive Education in a global world - Peter Lorange, Professor, IMD
• The National Perspective –Dean and Professor, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus
• Identity and Culture – Per-Olof Berg, Professor, Stockholm University School of Business
• Academic Entrepreneurship - Nicolai Foss, Professor, CBS
• Perspective from the Future - Henrik Thorn, CBS Student
• A few things I have learned about leadership over the past 22 years - Finn Junge-Jensen, President
15:45-17:30 Reception in the Main Hall
Welcome – Anders Knutsen, Chairman of the Board
No additional speeches, unless agreed in advance
Yours sincerely
Anders Knutsen
Chairman of the Board
Registration no later than 15 June at: www.cbs.dk/farewellseminar
Finn Junge-Jensen, president for 22 years.
To develop diversity into a coherent and distinctive profile, you need vision and perseverance, not least in a democratised university setting. This calls for strong symbolic leadership. To develop an institution to be able to contain differences and explore possibilities, you need a president who actually is able to contain differences and explore possibilities.
22 years ago Finn Junge-Jensen was the perfect match: To give vision, articulate values and ideas, to enhance and encourage exploration – and
to initiate bold ventures, all of this without wasting concern or resources on conventional line management and control. Probably one way of
understanding the surprising success of CBS compared to the other Danish universities living under similar conditions.
CBS’ success may also be described as the unintended positive side effect of stamina. For an emergent strategy to succeed, continuity is paramount. It takes time. 22 years to be exact. To create an institution on diversity to the point where diversity becomes a distinctive profile,
you need paradoxical management. You need to cater for diversity, to reward differences, and to support radical initiatives, but you need to see this as ‘something’ particular and not as lack of direction or chaos. You need to have a vision of co-construction, of interdependencies,
and robustness. You need a president to stay around long enough and to be strong enough to show that the results lie in the long and winding road, and not in alignment, rational decisions, rational planning, and simple structures. In short, you need a president with the personal capacity to combine emergence with resilience, to combine difference with unity, to combine local initiative with overarching direction - and to combine personal incentive with organisational purpose. Finn Junge-Jensen has been such a president.
Jan Molin, Dean, Education